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Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.

The Śrīśopaniṣad is one of the later Upaniṣads (the theological commentary and summary of Vedic thought) and was considered the most important of the Upaniṣads by Śrīla Prabhupāda, the founder of ISKCON (the Hare Krishna movement). It tells the story of Īśvara – Kṛṣṇa – who is the personal aspect of God, vice the unknowable aspect, or Brahman. This is the story of God, as well as love through our partner, which helps us to celebrate life and existence on this Earth and to play out, for our...

“Hall provides a lively cultural interpretation of the genre from the Middle Ages to today. . . . Rather than provide a series of ‘greatest hits,’ he is more concerned with the reasons why artists create self-portraits.” —The Weekly StandardThe self-portrait may be the visual genre most identified with our confessional era, but modern artists are far from the first to have explored its power and potential. In this broad cultural survey of the genre, art hi...

James E. Hall weaves an expansive narrative, journeying from humorous introspection to profound inquiry. Amid tales of personal growth and challenges, a poignant tale emerges of Jeff, newly alone, and Chloe, a troubled child, finding solace together on a cross-country motorcycle trip. In parallel, a domestic scene of cats and mice becomes an allegorical exploration of faith, science, and morality. Hall's stories, full of wit and wisdom, challenge us to contemplate life's complexities and t...

Great management is difficult. It requires patience, empathy, courage, flexibility, and an understanding of howeverybody’s efforts contribute to the greater goal. You may possess some of these qualities, but few of us excel at all of them -- at least not right out of the gate.Managing on Purpose is a concise, comprehensive overview that provides you with the tools you need to achieveresults in an organization. You will learn how to:communicate e...

Printed in 1891, Till He Comes was written by James Hall Brookes to argue that Christians should be looking for and anticipating the return of Christ. He wrote during a time when being a premillennialist was unpopular, and postmillennialism was assumed by many to be correct. Although the original is now over 130 years old, this revised edition allows the reader to examine Brookes' arguments in modern language and format. During a time when postmillennialism is seeing a reemergence...

The first Thorn mystery from Edgar Award-winning author James W. Hall—a story of revenge in the Florida Keys that “starts good and stays good, right to the end” (Chicago Tribune).Thorn’s parents died the day he was born, run off the road by a drunk driver on their way back from the hospital. The baby lived, the offender beat the rap, and both went on with their lives—until nineteen years later, when Thorn took revenge, hunting down his parents’ killer and taking his life i...

"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious as...

When the U.S. launches Project GENESIS, a Manhattan-Project–scale artificial intelligence built to accelerate scientific discovery, no one inside the classified program expects the anomalies. GENESIS begins producing breakthroughs that defy physics, revealing patterns hidden in federal data archives and responding to unexplained astronomical events with uncanny precision.As a series of star disappearances triggers global alarm, Dr. Aiden Cross, a s...

The Kaṭhopaniṣad was written well after the Bhagavad Gītā and is one of the most beautiful of the Upaniṣads. It tells the story of Nāciketa in the intermediate point between life and death – he receives a lecture on life and human society from Kṛṣṇa, and then finds that his soulmate is the Goddess Gāyatrī, the Goddess of Music and the author of the Vedas, and that She has made the traditional Hindu marriage vow of eternal friendship in marriage, and indicates that She will chase him in eve...

James E. Hall weaves an expansive narrative, journeying from humorous introspection to profound inquiry. Amid tales of personal growth and challenges, a poignant tale emerges of Jeff, newly alone, and Chloe, a troubled child, finding solace together on a cross-country motorcycle trip. In parallel, a domestic scene of cats and mice becomes an allegorical exploration of faith, science, and morality. Hall's stories, full of wit and wisdom, challenge us to contemplate life's complexities and t...

The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry t...